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We discuss the detectability of large-scale HI intensity fluctuations using the FAST telescope. We present forecasts for the accuracy of measuring the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and constraining the properties of dark energy. The FAST…

We present a formalism to extract the EoR HI power spectrum for drift scans using radio interferometers. Our main aim is to determine the coherence time scale of time-ordered visibilities. We compute the two-point correlation function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Akash Kumar Patwa , Shiv Sethi

The large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen in the Universe will be luminous through its 21 cm emission. Here, for the first time, we use the auto-power spectrum of 21 cm intensity fluctuations to constrain neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-01 E. R. Switzer , K. W. Masui , K. Bandura , L. -M. Calin , T. -C. Chang , X. -L. Chen , Y. -C. Li , Y. -W. Liao , A. Natarajan , U. -L. Pen , J. B. Peterson , J. R. Shaw , T. C. Voytek

Neutral atomic hydrogen and molecular gas in the host galaxies of radio active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be traced using H I 21-cm and OH-1667 MHz absorption lines to understand the fueling and feedback processes. We present the results of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-01 Yogesh Chandola , D. J. Saikia , Yin-Zhe Ma , Zheng Zheng , Chao-Wei Tsai , Di Li , Denis Tramonte , Hengxing Pan

Driftscan methods are highly efficient, stable techniques for conducting extragalactic surveys in the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen. Holding the telescope still while the beam scans the sky at the sidereal rate produces exceptionally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 F. H. Briggs , E. Sorar , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg , W. van Driel

The FAST All Sky H I survey (FASHI) will cover the entire observable sky ($\sim$22000 square degrees) with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). With the currently released data, we perform an untargeted survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-13 Chuan-Peng Zhang , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang , Cheng Cheng , Jin-Long Xu , Nai-Ping Yu , Xiao-Lan Liu , Bo Zhang

We have carried out a sensitive high-latitude (|b| > 15deg.) HI 21cm-line absorption survey towards 102 sources using the GMRT. With a 3-sigma detection limit in optical depth of ~0.01, this is the most sensitive HI absorption survey. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rekhesh Mohan , K. S. Dwarakanath , G. Srinivasan

The future of precision cosmology could benefit from cross-correlations between intensity maps of unresolved neutral hydrogen (HI) and more conventional optical galaxy surveys. A major challenge that needs to be overcome is removing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Steven Cunnington , Laura Wolz , Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon

We present methods and results from "21-cm Spectral Line Observations of Neutral Gas with the EVLA" (21-SPONGE), a large survey for Galactic neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). With the upgraded…

We have carried out a dedicated transient survey of 300 deg$^2$ of the SDSS Stripe 82 region using the Giant Meterwavelength Radio Telescope (GMRT) at 150 MHz. Our multi-epoch observations, together with the TGSS survey, allow us to probe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-24 A. Hajela , K. P. Mooley , H. T. Intema , D. A. Frail

We explore the feasibility of HI galaxy redshift surveys with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and its proposed Core Array interferometry. Using semi-analytical simulations, we compare the performance of the FAST…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Zhenglong Li , Diyang Liu , Chengliang Xu , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

HI Intensity Mapping (IM) will be used to do precision cosmology using many existing and upcoming radio observatories. The signal will be contaminated due to absorption, the largest component of which will be the flux absorbed by the HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Sambit Roychowdhury , Clive Dickinson , Ian W. A. Browne

In order to further develop and implement novel drift scan imaging experiments to undertake wide field, high time resolution surveys for millisecond optical transients, an appropriate telescope drive system is required. This paper describes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 S. J. Tingay

We present a pilot study of extragalactic HI 21-cm absorption lines using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We observed 5 continuum sources with HI absorption features firstly identified in the 40% data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Bo Zhang , Ming Zhu , Zhong-Zu Wu , Qing-Zheng Yu , Peng Jiang , You-Ling Yue , Meng-Lin Huang , Qiao-Li Hao

We have used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array to image ~100 sq. deg. of SDSS Stripe 82 at 1-2 GHz. The survey consists of 1,026 snapshot observations of 2.5 minutes duration, using the hybrid CnB configuration. The survey has good…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-31 I. Heywood , M. J. Jarvis , A. J. Baker , K. W. Bannister , C. S. Carvalho , M. Hardcastle , M. Hilton , K. Moodley , O. M. Smirnov , D. J. B. Smith , S. V. White , E. J. Wollack

We discuss the possibility of performing a substantial spectroscopic galaxy redshift survey selected via the 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen using the Five-hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to be built in China. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alan R. Duffy , Richard A. Battye , Rod D. Davies , Adam Moss , Peter N. Wilkinson

We describe the scientific goals and survey design of the First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH), a wide field survey for 21-cm line absorption in neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) at intermediate cosmological redshifts. FLASH will be…

We present the results of a 5 GHz survey with the Very Large Array, designed to search for short-lived (<1 day) transients and to characterize the variability of radio sources at milli-Jansky levels. A total sky area of 2.66 deg^2, spread…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 E. O. Ofek , D. A. Frail , B. Breslauer , S. R. Kulkarni , P. Chandra , A. Gal-Yam , M. M. Kasliwal , N. Gehrels

Filaments stand as pivotal structures within the cosmic web. However, direct detection of the cold gas content of the filaments remains challenging due to its inherent low brightness temperature. With the TNG hydrodynamical simulations, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Diyang Liu , Yichao Li , Denis Tramonte , Furen Deng , Jiaxin Wang , Yougang Wang , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

Line intensity mapping provides a statistical approach to tracing the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. We apply the HI intensity mapping technique to interferometric data from the MeerKAT International GHz-Tiered…